American hard rock veterans Night Ranger have released their new Best Of collection through Frontiers Music Srl. To mark the release, the band has also unveiled “Wasted Time” (Live from Sweetwater Studios), complete with an official music video.
The collection brings together newly remixed and remastered versions of songs from across Night Ranger’s career, combining their established hits with selections from their more recent records. The album is available on CD and vinyl, with the double-LP edition offered in black, gold and orange splatter variants.
“The new Best Of is a celebration of not only our classic hits but also what we’ve created over the last 20 years. And we’re just gonna keep cranking it cause we’re having too much fun to stop! So enjoy the ride and see ya on the road!”, comments Jack Blades.
The band’s catalog includes some of the defining material of American melodic rock, from “Sister Christian” and “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” to “(You Can Still) Rock In America.” The new collection revisits those staples with refreshed mixes and masters while covering more than four decades of music.
Alongside the better-known tracks, Best Of includes “When You Close Your Eyes,” “Four In The Morning” and “Time Of Our Lives,” as well as later songs including “High Road,” “No Time To Lose,” “Somehow Someway,” and “Truth.” Together, the selection covers the melodic hooks, guitar-driven arrangements and big choruses that have remained central to Night Ranger’s sound.
The current lineup features Jack Blades on bass and vocals, Kelly Keagy on drums and vocals, Brad Gillis and Keri Kelli on guitars, and Eric Levy on keyboards.
The collection also adds two bonus tracks. One is the newly recorded live version of “Wasted Time,” captured at Sweetwater Studios and paired with the new video. The other is a live rendition of “Feliz Navidad,” giving the band an opportunity to show a lighter side of their stage repertoire.
With a summer 2026 tour ahead, Best Of offers a broad overview of Night Ranger’s catalog, bringing the classic material together with the band’s more recent work and newly remastered versions of their songs.
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine takes a closer look at “The Last Note” from the band’s self-titled album.
Mustaine is also set to appear at Kaufman Music Center in New York City on September 8 for a special conversation marking the release of his new memoir, In My Darkest Hour.
The event will give fans a chance to hear Mustaine discuss the book and his career in person. Every ticket includes a signed copy of In My Darkest Hour.
Thin Lizzy’s 1971 self-titled debut album returned for its 55th anniversary on July 10. The expanded edition adds 15 previously unreleased recordings, rare BBC sessions, new stereo mixes and, for the first time, a Dolby Atmos mix.
The album features the original lineup of Phil Lynott, Eric Bell, and Brian Downey, capturing the band at the start of its career.
One of the archival highlights is “Rosalie”, performed live on Sight & Sound In Concert on January 26, 1983. Footage licensed from BBC Studios Distribution has recently been shared and can be viewed below. All rights reserved.
Originally released on April 30, 1971, Thin Lizzy marked the first studio album from the Irish rock band. The lineup of Phil Lynott on bass and vocals, Eric Bell on guitar, and Brian Downey on drums would go on to define this early period of the group.
The album was followed by the New Day EP in August 1971. Produced and recorded by NickTauber at Decca Studios, it forms part of the archival material included with the new edition.
For a debut, Thin Lizzy showed a band willing to take chances. The record is raw, energetic, and unmistakably rooted in the chemistry between Lynott, Bell, and Downey.
The expanded CD and LP editions brought together material from across this early period, including BBC sessions, rarities and recordings that have remained unheard until now.
The 3CD/Blu-ray package contains 15 unreleased tracks, led by the previously unheard studio recording “Beggar’s Song”. The collection also includes the rare New Day EP, additional rarities, and BBC sessions.
A new stereo mix by Richard Whittaker is included on the 3CD edition, while the accompanying Blu-ray adds the first Dolby Atmos mix of Thin Lizzy. The deluxe box comes in a rigid 10×10 package and includes a 40-page hardcover book featuring extensive liner notes from Mojo’s Mark Blake, along with memorabilia.
In collaboration with Spitfire Audio, Joseph Stevenson goes inside the orchestral work that shapes Devin Townsend‘s latest album The Moth.
The final episode focuses on “The Moth”, the album’s central theme and one of its recurring musical ideas. Stevenson examines how the motif was developed through orchestration, breaking down the separate layers and instruments that give the piece its full sound.
For anyone interested in the mechanics behind the arrangements, the episode offers a closer look at how the individual parts come together to create the track’s larger impact.
Devin Townsend is also preparing to take the material on the road with his solo Metamorphosis tour across Europe and the UK. The latest schedule now includes Madrid and Barcelona, with shows set for October 9 and 10, respectively.
Tickets for Devin Townsend’s Metamorphosis Solo UK & European Tour 2026 are on sale here.
For more than three decades, industrial metal pioneers Fear Factory have explored the friction between man and machine, tracing the rise of artificial intelligence and humanity’s loss of control over its own creations.
Today, the band launches a bold new era with “Roboticist”. The latest single, which premiered on Sirius XM Liquid Metal, marks the recording debut of the band’s current lineup featuring vocalist Milo Silvestro, drummer Pete Webber, and bassist Tony Campos. Blending crushing mechanical aggression with a haunting, melodic hook, the track explores a dystopian reality where flesh fails, and only consciousness endures.
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Damien Rainaud, the single arrives alongside a cinematic music video directed by Vincente Cordero and produced by Arion Csihar. System activated: the next chapter of Fear Factory has officially begun.
Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares comments: “The future isn’t coming. It’s already here; “Roboticist” is the next evolution of Fear Factory. Man, Machine, and the war for what comes next. I can’t wait for everyone to hear the beginning of a new era of Fear Factory.”
Death is no longer the end, it is the next evolution. The machine no longer needs humanity; it inherits the future.
Stand by; critical intel on the upcoming album is imminent. In the meantime, prepare for the live assault. Experience Fear Factory as they tear across Europe and the US on the Cybernetic Domination Tour. Tickets for all dates are on sale here.
Mark Kendall, founding member and lead guitarist of the multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated Great White, has signed a book deal with Diversion Books for his upcoming memoir, Soul Of A Man: My Life In Great White, From The Stage And Beyond. The book is slated for a fall 2027 release. Jeffrey Mangus, founder and principal literary agent of Mangus Literary Group (MLG), brokered the deal, and Kendall will use it to tell the deeply personal story behind the guitarist audiences have known for more than four decades.
Written in Kendall‘s own voice, Soul Of A Man follows Mark‘s path from the Southern California club circuit to international success with Great White, pushing past the Sunset Strip mythology to get into the addiction, recovery, loss, love, faith and second chances that have shaped his life since.
“This isn’t only a story about rock ‘n’ roll,” Kendall said. “It’s the story of everything that happened when the music stopped, the mistakes, the miracles, the people I’ve loved and lost, and the grace that allowed me to keep going. I wanted to write the truth, not the highlight reel. I’ve lived a life I never could have imagined, and I’m finally ready to tell the whole story.”
As Great White‘s founder and defining guitarist, Kendall had a hand in staples like “Rock Me,” “Save Your Love,” “House Of Broken Love” and the Grammy-nominated smash “Once Bitten, Twice Shy.” Behind the platinum plaques and sold-out tours sits a story about survival that Kendall is finally ready to lay out in full.
Keith Wallman, editor-in-chief at Diversion Books, led the acquisition. The publisher’s catalog leans heavily into narrative nonfiction across music, biography and pop culture.
“Mark’s story sits at the intersection of rock history and genuine human transformation,” Wallman said. “‘Soul Of A Man’ is the rare music memoir that earns its redemption arc rather than assuming it.”
Jeffrey Mangus echoed that sentiment: “Mark approached this book with a level of honesty that’s rare in the genre. He didn’t set out to write a rock memoir; he set out to tell the truth about his life, with the music and the meteoric rise to the top as the backdrop. Placing this project with Keith and the team at Diversion Books was exactly the right fit.”
Soul Of A Man also digs into Kendall‘s sobriety journey, his relationship with his wife, Bridget, and his ongoing fight against Stage IV cancer, all while he continues making music and living with what he describes as gratitude and purpose.
A firm release date and further publication details are expected from Diversion Books down the line.
Kendall grew up in a musical household in Huntington Beach, California, where his father played jazz trumpet, his mother sang jazz standards, and his grandfather played piano. Early influences like Jimi Hendrix, Cream , and The Doors pulled him toward the guitar.
Kendall‘s earlier band, Dante Fox, cycled through two singers before landing on Jack Russell. A 1982 gig at the Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood caught the attention of record executive Alan Niven, who suggested a name change that nodded to Kendall‘s blonde hair: Great White.
Since forming in 1982, Great White has built a following on blues-soaked guitar riffs and swagger. The songwriting partnership between Kendall and Michael Lardie (keys, guitar) produced hit after hit, and things clicked into another gear once Audie Desbrow joined the band in ’85.
Best known for the Grammy-nominated, gold-selling “Once Bitten, Twice Shy,” Great White has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide, racked up six Top 100 Billboard hits and nine Top 200 Billboard albums, gone multi-platinum twice, earned five gold records and topped MTV‘s video charts four times.
Mark has been married to his wife, Bridget, for more than two decades and has four children: Jonathan, Taylor, Shane and Ashley.
Mangus Literary Group is a boutique agency representing nonfiction authors, with a focus on memoir and celebrity memoir. It’s led by Jeffrey Mangus, whose own path has run through cardiovascular perfusion, the Sunset Strip rock scene, and more than a decade as a ghostwriter on dozens of published titles.
Diversion Books is an independent publisher specializing in narrative nonfiction across music, biography, and pop culture.
Scott Weiland‘s first-ever live album, Scott Weiland: Live, arrives Oct. 23, 2026, marking its first trip to digital platforms and CD, alongside a new limited-edition red vinyl pressing. Leading the charge is the new single “Interstate Love Song (Live),” out today with a visualizer built from previously unseen footage of Weiland onstage. The track had only existed before as part of the album’s limited Record Store Day release, and pre-orders for the album and merch are open now here.
Few frontmen left a mark quite like Weiland. Between Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver and a well-regarded solo career, his voice, stage presence and restless creative energy made him one of rock’s defining figures, first through the alt-rock explosion of the ’90s and then through the genre’s hard-rock resurgence in the 2000s.
Scott Weiland: Live catches Weiland and his band mid-tour in 2009, promoting his second solo album, Happy In Galoshes, and it’s a proper showcase of what made him so compelling live. Pulled from previously unreleased recordings unearthed through the Scott Weiland estate, the collection blends solo cuts with material spanning his time in both Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver.
The nine-track set includes the Stone Temple Pilots staple “Interstate Love Song (Live),” along with live versions of “Vasoline” and “Unglued,” Velvet Revolver‘s “Do It For The Kids,” and solo tracks “Paralysis,” “Killing Me Sweetly,” “Barbarella,” “Missing Cleveland” and “Blind Confusion.”
The album first surfaced on limited blue vinyl for Record Store Day and sold out fast. Now, with fans still asking for it, Scott Weiland: Live comes back on limited red vinyl and CD, and lands on streaming platforms for the first time ever. It’s more than a straightforward live document; it’s a look at an artist whose fingerprints are all over multiple eras of modern rock.
The release lands just days before what would have been Weiland‘s Oct. 27 birthday, giving fans a chance to dig back into his catalog and hear performances that have stayed locked away until now.
Scott Weiland: Live will be released Oct. 23, 2026, on limited-edition red vinyl and CD, and will be available on streaming platforms for the first time. “Interstate Love Song (Live)” and its accompanying visualizer are out today.
Weiland was found dead on his tour bus in December 2015 at age 48, from a toxic mix of drugs and alcohol. At the time, he was touring with his solo band The Wildabouts and dealing with self-medication, estrangement from his children, financial strain, and a drinking problem that had steadily worsened.
A January 2016 report from Billboard revealed that in his final months, Scott was also grappling with hepatitis C, mental illness and the news that both of his parents had cancer.
Beyond Stone Temple Pilots, Scott fronted Velvet Revolver from 2004 through 2008. He returned to STP in 2008 after a six-year break, but was let go from the band in 2013 due to erratic behavior.
Maryland rockers Clutch have put out a new single, “The Drifter Returns,” backed by an official lyric video below.
The song isn’t coming out of nowhere. Clutch has already been playing “The Drifter Returns” live at recent shows, and it marks the first taste of the follow-up to 2022’s Sunrise On Slaughter Beach.
Clutch has been chipping away at new material between tour dates, working toward what will be its fourteenth studio album. The band had previously said producer Tom Dalgety was back in the fold, but those plans seem to have fallen through.
Clutch has more in common with The Grateful Dead, Rush and The Allman Brothers than the riffs and wordplay might suggest. Like those bands, the people who follow Clutch show up for the experience and the community as much as the music, and loving this band tends to come with a real sense of belonging.
The lineup goes back to high school: Neil Fallon (vocals), Tim Sult (guitar), Dan Maines (bass) and Jean-Paul Gaster (drums) met as Seneca Valley High School classmates and have stayed locked in for three decades running. Coming out of the same scene that produced Bad Brains, Minor Threat and Rites Of Spring, Clutch built a sound around hardcore fury and loose, muscular stoner rock, all wrapped in Fallon’s wordy, offbeat lyrics.
Over the years, the band has toured with Slayer and System Of A Down and more recently co-headlined with Dropkick Murphys, Killswitch Engage and Mastodon. Much like Slayer or Iron Maiden, Clutch has outlasted bands built around a hit single and the pressure to keep chasing one. The Germantown, Maryland foursome doesn’t chase trends, and across 13 studio albums and various other releases dating back to 1991, that’s earned them a reputation as one of the most respected bands in the game.
Beartooth has officially put out its new album, Pure Ecstasy, on Fearless Records, marking the band’s first release with the label. Written and largely produced by frontman Caleb Shomo, the record pushes Beartooth into some of the most immediate and expansive territory of their career, pairing huge hooks with crushing heaviness and some of Shomo‘s most personal writing yet. The album has already landed a spot on NPR‘s NMF longlist, and select collaborations with Jordan Fish (Bring Me The Horizon, Halsey, Good Charlotte) add another layer to the record.
Alongside the release, Beartooth has put out the official video for “Beautiful Again.” Shomo describes the track simply: “It perfectly depicts the duality of my headspace while writing the album. Pure joy and pure despair, nothing in between.”
Beartooth will take Pure Ecstasy on the road with the Pure Ecstasy World Tour. Don Broco, Magnolia Park and Windwaker will support the U.S. dates.
Beartooth has spent the last decade turning into one of modern rock’s most volatile and vital bands. Led by Caleb Shomo, the Columbus, Ohio outfit built its audience by fusing hardcore aggression with arena-scale hooks and a level of emotional honesty rare for the genre. As a new wave of heavy bands takes over streaming, TikTok and rooms as big as Madison Square Garden, Beartooth has planted itself among the genre’s new frontrunners, standing alongside Bring Me The Horizon, Pierce The Veil, and Bad Omens in redefining what heavy-meets-melodic can sound like.
“‘Pure Ecstasy’ was birthed in a studio with Misha Mansoor, ridiculous loudspeakers, and the dumbest heaviest chugs we could chug,” Shomo says. “Once it was brought home and expanded on with Jordan Fish, there was no question it was the album opener.”
It’s a loud, disorienting opening statement, and it means exactly that. “Free” pairs towering hooks with brutal self-examination, catching Shomo in the act of refusing to hide anymore.
“The song is the start of the next chapter of my music and my life,” Shomo says. “The emotional roller coaster that is living can be very complicated at times. In one day you can equally experience pure fear and pure joy. “Free” is the most honest depiction of my soul I will most likely ever make.”
“Eyes Closed” and “Beautiful Again” push Beartooth‘s balance of heaviness and melody into new spaces. “There are so many fun riffs to play on ‘Eyes Closed,’” Shomo notes. “It was so fun to scream out and let go. The song was written from the ground up with Jordan, and the moment it was a demo, we knew we had something special.”
He continues on “Beautiful Again”: “‘Beautiful Again’ was the first song written during the sessions with Jordan after we wrote freely a few months prior. He was adamant that I dig in and write about exactly what I’m going through and how I feel. To me, this song perfectly depicts the duality of my headspace while writing the album. Pure joy and pure despair, nothing in between.”
Paired with the title track and “Free,” these songs add up to a record that feels massive and deeply personal at once, built for the outsiders who’ve followed Beartooth for years while cracking the door open for new ones.
That honesty has always been the band’s foundation. Shomo started Beartooth out of his Ohio basement back in 2013, writing, playing, and producing everything himself, turning anxiety, depression, anger, and isolation into songs fans could scream right back at him. Over time, Beartooth became both wound and cure, a way of transforming pain and self-destruction into something that connects with millions.
What started as a solo outlet has grown into one of modern rock’s biggest success stories, from the gold-certified Hated to the platinum In Between, sold-out tours and an audience that keeps expanding.
Pure Ecstasy marks a shift. It’s bigger and more open than anything Beartooth has done, and for the first time, Caleb Shomo didn’t make that leap alone. Where past Beartooth records tended to document survival, this one deals with what comes after it: acceptance, self-awareness, and finally letting people in.
Beartooth has historically run almost entirely as Shomo‘s solo vision in the studio, but Pure Ecstasy became the most collaborative record the band has made. Early writing input from Skyler Accord (Issues, Twenty One Pilots, Bilmuri) helped shape songs including “For Me By Me,” while sessions with Fish (Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, Architects) pushed Caleb into deeper, more exposed territory than ever. Caleb calls the process “the single scariest thing I’ve ever done,” but doesn’t hesitate to call the outcome a gift.
“He was feeling those things with me and pushing me to express them,” Shomo says of Fish. “Every time I felt like I didn’t have it, he’d carry me to the finish line, and every time, a few days later, I’d listen back and think, ‘I’m so glad I didn’t back off. I’m so glad I didn’t hide.’”
That same collaborative energy carried through the recording sessions. Bassist Oshie Bichar, who’s been alongside Caleb since 2014, guitarists Zach Huston and Will Deely, and drummer Connor Denis have grown into a formidable live unit, and all took on bigger roles in the studio than ever before. Pure Ecstasy is also the first Beartooth album where Shomo didn’t play every instrument himself, with Denis performing on every song, much of it captured in complete takes at NRG Recording Studios.
For years, Beartooth turned pain into anthems built to be screamed back at them. Pure Ecstasy captures the other side of that fight, not peace or perfection, but the possibility of actual freedom. It’s Shomo stepping into the light instead of running from himself. Looking at the band’s catalog, the path was always pointing here: Sick, Disgusting, Aggressive, Disease, Below, The Surface. Pure Ecstasy was always the destination.
The Warning just dropped its fifth full-length, Everything’s Falling, out now via Lava/Republic Records, and the timing could not be better. Lead single “Kerosene” just hit No. 1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, a first for a Mexican act and a first for an all-female band on that particular chart.
Everything’s Falling finds the Monterrey trio digging into growth, self-discovery and the messiness of getting knocked down and getting back up, all delivered with the sharp songwriting and combustible playing that’s become their calling card.
To mark the release, The Warning has put out a video for “Bite My Tongue,” which you can watch below.
On the making of the record, the band said: “Everything’s Falling is a snapshot of where we are in our lives right now. We’ve grown so much over the past few years, not just as musicians, but as people. This album reflects everything we’ve experienced, the lessons we’ve learned, and the challenges we’ve overcome. At its core, it’s about accepting that life can be messy and unpredictable. Things fall apart, plans change, and sometimes you lose your footing. But those moments can teach you the most about yourself, and they’re often what make you stronger in the end.”
Making the record meant getting off the road entirely in 2025 so the band could zero in on writing. The Warning reconvened with longtime collaborator Anton DeLost and tracked the album at home in Monterrey, turning out what may be their tightest, most deliberate work to date.
The album covers a lot of ground. “Kerosene” brings the attitude and the riffs, “Ritual” leans into existential dread by way of tangled polyrhythms and eerie harmonies, “Ego” turns frustration into swagger, “Bloodsport” drifts toward a hazier, pop-tinged sound, and “Bite My Tongue” cuts straight to the point.
Everything’s Falling follows 2024’s Keep Me Fed, the album that pushed the band’s career streams past 710 million and landed them a Latin Grammy nod for Best Rock Song for “Qué Más Quieres,” alongside MTV VMA and MTV EMA nominations. Last year, the band closed out that album cycle with sold-out shows for 30,000 fans in Mexico City, later released as the live album and concert film Live From Auditorio Nacional, CDMX.
This year alone, The Warning has toured North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, including a run supporting Yungblud on his “Idols” world tour, plus festival dates and headline shows of their own.
The band, made up of sisters Daniela “Dany” Villarreal (guitar, lead vocals, piano), Paulina “Pau” Villarreal (drums, vocals, piano), and Alejandra “Ale” Villarreal (bass, piano, backing vocals), has been at this since childhood, cutting their teeth playing shows together in Monterrey long before the world caught on. Independent releases built their early audience, and 2022’s Error and 2024’s Keep Me Fed took things to another level, the latter driving career streams past 710 million and earning that Latin Grammy nomination for “Qué Más Quieres” along with the VMA and EMA nods. Along the way, they’ve shared stages with Yungblud, Halsey, Evanescence, Muse and Foo Fighters.
